European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Short takes a Vantura fat Date Tiv pg-13. Jim Carrey of in. Living color Fame makes Hii starring debut As. A detective who specializes in locating last Pels. The a Vantur of in or at Moua a Tec Tiv g. Entertaining and do tailed cartoon adventures of Sherlock an rodent Sleuth. Angle r. A Ingle woman has to Deal with complicated relationships and criticism from her family and friends while learning Testin Sivility for herself and. New baby. Gena Davis and Stephen Rea. Had Olla r. Four women of the old West become a gunfighters la win Back their Money their rights and their dignity. Madeleine Stowe Mary Stuart Mas a Lerson Andie Macdowall and Drew Barrymore. A aaa a a 1 1 Beethoven 2nd in a. The King sly ii Gal nil is Bernard is Back. This time he has fallen in love. A Charles Gro Diri and a Bhanie la Tel a a Lank Check pm a 9 year old boy is it mistakenly Given a signed Blank Check and fills in the amount Hgt a ii Mininn Miguel Ferrer Bank r. A woman  birth witnesses a murder after regaining her sight through a Radical of Craton Aidah Ouinn and Madeleine state. A. Blue Chip l�?Tg-13. Nick Nolle stars As a College basketball a Nash who must walk a Fine line in his recruitment of new players Sha Juille o Neal makes his acting debut. A i. Chasers r. A couple of mismatched Navy Shore patrolmen get an assignment to escort a prisoner Quot Erika Elu Nilk to the base. Turn Berenger and William Mcnamara. Aaa. Chin moan r a thriller about a Veteran Detec. Live in a Small Florida City whose backstreet Romance with a wealthy Youing widow spins a web of do cult a a betrayal and murder. De Harris and Madeleine Stowe.  1 a a. Coal running pm. A comedy about a jamaican 1 bobsledding team. John Candy and Doug e. Doug. 02ith mighty Duck to. Once again Anen Grgetic Emilio Estevez is coaching his Peck cd ice. Hockey team. A. / a a a. Maui we a St fac at death r Charles Branson a now in his 70s a returns More absurdly stoic than Ever. A the oat away r. Alec Baldwin is a hardened a criminal who will do anything to get put of jail. Kim Basinger is his wife and will do anything to help  a a a a a a. A a Quot a a ready fg-j3, Money hungry relatives Light for. A. A a the immense Fortune of eccentric Kirk Douglas. Also Michael j. Fos a. I Aumpy old men pg-13. Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau Star in this predictable formula comedy but it s fun to Sec their chemistry aaa. Guarding Tea pg-13, Nicolas Cage la the special agent in charge of the secret service detail assigned to guard the widow shit icy Maclaine b a former , president. Aav4 a a Hout forty 2 it. Kid in play end themselves amid a whole new set of supporting Chara Eiers. This one centers around a Bachelor party. A ill a anything pg-13. Part romantic comedy. Part skewering of Hollywood part tribute m actors a and part prickly a that daughter relationship. Funny and Well acted especially by Nick Nolle and Albert Brooks.  Jack pm in. A bungling full tip teams up with a very perceptive Muse partner to enjoy a life of crime Paul Hogan and Cuba Gooding or. Major Laagus ii pm. The inevitable sequel to the 1989 baseball hit is a in so comedy. Charlie Sheen Tom Berc Ngor and others Recap to Cir roles a or. Dawn trip pg-13. Kohin Williams disguises himself a b British Nanny,.aaw a. My Molhar the Haro pm the tangled Story of a 14-year-ofd Girt who tries to appear More mature by c Llna the boy or her dreams that hot father is actually her Lover. Gerard Depardieu and Katherin Higl a my Lorl 2 g. Now 13 years old Vada Anna Chlumsky travels to Lis Angeles to find out about. Her Mother s life before she died. Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. A naked Oun my Aith final insult pg-13. The. Long awaited conclusion to the hilarious naked gun trilogy. 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The Ltd comedian Denis Leary la perfectly cast As a hapless jewel  kidnaps a bickering married couple on Christmas eve and ends up being a hostage  a. A now Whit and the savants Dwarf g. The very first feature length animated cartoon it re re a leased More than a half Century after it originally caught the worlds imagination. Kaaa Tom hatan r. Overlong Western about the earps and the Clamp tis and the gunfight St the . Corral. Some stirring action but mostly aggressively unbelievable. Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer. Aaa Whit Fang is myth at the who Wolf pm. That half Wolf half dog super canine is Back with a new master Scott Barslow in a less than riveting a stultifying by politically Correct adventure involving a starving american Indian tribe. A a. With Honor pg-13. When homeless Joe Pesci is caught living in the basement if the Harvard school Library he has something to Trade with on it student Brand in Fraser. A compiled irom wire reports. Star ratings by Chuck Vinch. A. A a. Wame Bros. Met Gibson and James Garner Are Quick on the trigger against sore poker losers in the romantic comedy Maverick Chuck Vinch staff writer on movies Maverick rated pm a a a a Kaaa must  your time a passable entertainment w coming soon to a video outlet near you and you can wait the growing pantheon of wretched movies built in the remains of old to shows finally has a shining Light to serve As the Standard for How this sort of thing ought to be done irreverent amiable and shot through with Good old fashioned fun Maverick based on the 1957-62 to series is a Fine Kickoff to the summer movie season. A Mel Gibson takes the role of easygoing Gambler and gunslinger Bret Maverick and gives it his patented touch of Seif deprecating wit. His ingratiating performance owes much to his Martin Riggs character in the lethal weapon series and is amplified by tie guidance of his Friend director Richard Donner who also was behind the camera for those films. To stretch the connection even further Gibson a lethal weapon cohort Danny Glover has a Cameo and even gets to mutter his signature line a a in a getting too old for this Bleep a everyone in the wild West seems to have at least a nodding acquaintance with Mav As he is known and most Are Friendly. But As the film opens he is caught in the clutches of a group of desperado led by the menacing Angel Alfred Molina and the Outlook is Bleak. He a sitting atop his horse with a noose around his neck and a nest of rattlers just waiting for a Good meal \ the first hour of the film is taken up with the Flashback that leads him to this perilous Point. Maverick wants to get in on a High stakes riverboat poker game run by Commodore Duvall James Coburn for which the entry fee is $25,000. Mav is $3,000 Short but since half the population West of the Mississippi seems to owe him Money he thinks it will be easy to raise the rest. A its not. His efforts Are slowed when he meets saucy Annabelle Bransford Jodie Foster flashing a slyly playful aspect of her Talent that she rarely shows. She a a con artist in her own right who is also looking to get into the game. This pair of jokers trims int free aces when they re joined by marshal Zane Cooper James Garner the original Maverick who is still in Fine fettle. In route to St. Louis the Trio keep up a Stream of witty banter even As they try to swindle each other. Writer William Goldman who penned the scripts for the sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid liberally borrows from those films i building this one. But one of the highlights Here is a pure original and it comes Courtesy of an unexpected source a Graham Greene Kevin Costner a american Indian Friend in dances with wolves. Greene appears As a menacing Warrior who threatens Maverick and his companions. But his character is not nearly what he seems. To reveal More would spoil the fun but suffice it to say that Greene known for his serious studied roles shows a Side of himself that has never been seen before the poker game is almost Anticlimactic after All the raucous action that precedes it. But Goldman keeps a few aces up his sleeve for a late series of wild double and triple crosses. If there a one thing the film lacks its a world class villain to match wits and guns with Maverick. While Molina uses his dark hulking presence adequately in the bad Guy Rote he just does no to have the marquee stature to match Gibson. But that s really a minor quibble. This is one of the Best film treatments of an old to series to Date. Rarely has a movie left the door open wider for a sequel and rarely has the Prospect of such a sequel been More Welcome. Maverick gets four stars. Trivia note look for cameos by a Bevy of country music stars Many of whom contributed to the soundtrack. The list includes Clint Black Gill Kathy Mattea and Waylon  12 sunday May 29. 1994